Sealed Air designs and delivers packaging solutions that protect essential goods transported worldwide, preserve food, enable e-commerce and digital connectivity, and help create a global supply chain that is touchless, safer, less wasteful, and more resilient. We strive to foster a caring, high-performance growth culture that will deliver consistent, sustainable profitable growth and accelerate our performance a culture where accountability is clear and aligned, and where we reward business outcomes and impact. That culture guides everything we do, including how we partner with our customers and suppliers, how we attract and retain top talent, and how we create and deliver value for our stakeholders. In 2024, Sealed Air generated $5.4 billion in revenue and had approximately 16,400 employees distributing products and services to 117 countries/territories around the world. To learn more, visit www.sealedair.com.
Position Summary
The Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) function is looking for a highly motivated Financial Analyst to provide global financial planning and analyses for the corporate functions of Sealed Air Corporation. This individual will support a variety of recurring financial processes including the monthly management reporting and variance analysis, the monthly forecasting process, and will be a key contributor to the corporate team's processes, such as supporting the development of the annual operating plan (AOP). As part of the FP&A team, the Financial Analyst will also be required to support special projects and ad hoc analyses as required. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills. He / she can think critically to navigate financial information systems and can simplify information to create clear outputs to support decision-making. The candidate must have effective communication skills with all levels of management and be able to work with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
Major responsibilities for this position include:
- Ensure the integrity of the month-end close process for assigned teams/functions, manage expense accruals, confirm proper accounting treatment for journal entries, and interact closely with the shared services centers and procurement to maintain accurate financials.
- Analyze variances vs. forecast, budget, and prior year. Highlight trends and identify corrective actions and/or opportunities for cost containment. Help drive accountability of the cost center managers through frequent interaction and providing tools for the review of spend to date and forecast.
- Prepare routine (e.g., functional reporting packages, EBITDA bridges, quarter over quarter P&L analytic processes) for all global regions and ad-hoc reporting and analysis to support Global Functions Finance Managers.
- Support the monthly forecast and annual AOP processes for assigned teams/functions. Coordinate, complete updates in financial systems (e.g., Hyperion, SAP, BIA), and consolidate functional results, and present final proposal to leadership.
- Maintain internal controls, GAAP compliant environment: address all audit requests timely and appropriately, perform reconciliations to test adherence, raise due diligence items, as required.
- Track savings initiatives as needed for assigned business functions.
- Continuously identify and implement improvements across all financial processes, focusing on process automation and other repeatable, scalable efficiency efforts.
- Utilize Power BI reports and other automated financial tools to provide teams with additional insights that better inform decision making.
- Actively problem solve to develop analytical approaches to answer queries in a timely manner.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and demanding environment; ability to multi-task with proven follow-through and adherence to changing priorities and deadlines
- Help facilitate requests, ad-hoc analysis and approval process for any type of project assigned.
- Work collaboratively with various groups throughout the organization
Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field required
- 2-4 years of work experience in Finance or related fields
- Developing skillset or strong desire to learn the following:
- Financial modeling using Excel, VBA, and/or Power Query
- ERP and BI analysis utilizing SAP, BIA / B4P / HANA, and Hyperion or OneStream
- Data visualization with Tableau or Power BI
Qualifications
- Solid knowledge of business concepts, accounting principles, and strong analytical skills
- Experience with financial planning and consolidation systems such as OneStream or Hyperion (HFM/Essbase)
- Flexible, patient, and highly pragmatic with ability to reprioritize quickly
- Proficiency with SAP, Power BI and business intelligence tools. Ability to quickly learn new financial and data systems
- Excellent problem-solving skills with ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes, and recommend solutions. Always focused on achieving outcomes.
- Detail-oriented and able to multi-task under pressure. Mentally resilient to endure challenges associated with fluid and demanding environments where priorities evolve constantly.
- Energetic, positive, and collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to organize, manage and prioritize work for self; able to work both independently and in a team environment
- Entrepreneurial spirit who continuously is thinking about how to work more efficiently / automate processes and proactively puts these ideas into practice
- Effective, clear, and concise written and verbal communication skills. Comfortable communicating across all levels of the organization.
- Excellent attention to detail
Requisition id: 54246
Relocation: No
Sealed Air is committed to attracting, selecting, and developing talent that reflects the diversity of the communities and customers we serve. We take pride in our selection process to identify, infuse, and grow talent to align with our culture, values, and norms. Sealed Air prioritizes talent development, fostering a culture of continuous growth and career progression. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
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